Boosted Annealing of Colloidal Monolayers using Active Dopants

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Abstract

Active particles are microscopic particles, which can inject energy locally and made available by recent progress in colloidal science. They are ideal "pump-probes" to explore the emergent properties in non-equilibrium soft systems and control the behavior of soft matter and self-assembly at the microscale.

In this talk, we will demonstrate how active particles added to a material to regulates its activity internally and boost the annealing of a colloidal monolayer. It opens a broad range of novel opportunities to thermal treatments, where the properties of matter are not controlled macroscopically but microscopically and in real time by active dopants.

*This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMR-1554724. J.P. thanks the Sloan Foundation for support through grant FG-2017-9392. E.D. acknowledges support of the US National Science Foundation under Award Number DMR-1610788, as well as the NYU IT High Performance Computing resources, services, and staff expertise.

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Presenters

  • Sophie Ramananarivo

    • LadHyX
    • University of California, San Diego

Authors

  • Sophie Ramananarivo

    • LadHyX
    • University of California, San Diego

  • Etienne Ducrot

    • CSMR, New York University
    • Department of Physics, NYU
    • New York University

  • Jeremie Palacci

    • University of California, San Diego